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Look, Toxie. We get it. You don't like political correctness. You're not sure why, but you have a vague feeling that Political Correctness wants to stifle your freedom of speech. Of course, the only person who seems to have challenged anyone's *right* to say anything in this thread is you. Nobody is trying to *censor* Mark Millar, only to suggest that the way he expresses himself is a bit dim. Yo, on the other hand, don't seem to be able to cope with people disagreeing with you, or behaving in a way you don't approve of. You don't quite know why they're wrong, but you certainly know they are. And *they* know they are, too, deep down. They're just being difficult. So you feel entitled to shout insults at them, which is lucky because you don't really have another way to disagree.
You've never actually quite worked out what the tenets of "Political Correctness" are. But you know that they are bad. You've never met anyone who subscribes to the ideology of Political Correctness, or who has described themselves as Politically Correct. In fact, they only context you have ever encountered the term in everyday usage was when somebody in the pub makes a joke about Pakistanis or Homosexuals, then smirks a little and says "oooh, that wasn't very politically correct, was it? Watch out, the PC police are about". You've never actually seen the PC Police, but you know that they are all over the place.
You haven't read anything about Political Correctness, because you already know about it. Sometimes, this makes you sound silly, for example when you talk about White Anglo-Saxon Heterosexual guilt, because you have heard the phrase White Anglo-Saxon Protestant, and using more words makes you look more intelligent, and harder to disagree with. Sometimes people seem to be laughing at you, and you don't know why. This makes you angry, because you are clearly cleverer than they are, and they just recite what they read in their Politically Correct books. You're not quite sure what constitutes a Politically Correct book, but you certainly know what people who read them sound like.
Now, since you are all clever and everything, and since we mean so little to you, I'm sure you can engage in this in a way that doesn't involve trying to shout people down. Shouting people down doesn't work on the Internet. There are techniques that resemble it, but they will just, over time, get you first ignored and finally banned.
So, please defeat these shadowy hordes of Political correctness Gone Mad with something resembling a coherent argument, or just leave it. You could begin by explaining in what sense exactly Condoleeza Rice is "in Scotland". |
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